Two instances share an attribute

[Cameron Simpson]

On 15Nov2008 22:41, Filip Gruszczyński <gruszczy at gmail.com> wrote:
| I really don't understand, what's happening with the following code.
| Am I doing something wrong?

Yes. This is a common mistake:

| class EnumeratedContent:
|         def __init__(self, values = []):
|                 self.values_ = values

The "values = []" happens at class definition time, not instance
definition time. So when "values" is not supplied, the same list
is reused as the default value.

The usual idiom is this:

  class EnumeratedContent:
          def __init__(self, values = None):
                  if values is None:
                      values = []
                  self.values_ = values

which makes a new [] during the instance creation.

Cheers,
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